At the Daily Mail: “To pee or not to pee: Women sell positive pregnancy tests on Craigslist for $25 each. . . and there is no shortage of motivated buyers: One seller writes ‘Wanna get your boyfriend to pop the question?’, while some buyers are motivated by revenge.”

So if men don’t want to get married, the best thing to do is trick them into it? Yeah, that will work…. The problem is that the women using a false pregnancy test are actually using the backing of the state to scare men into doing what they want or as a way to get revenge on them by the threat of the state for child support etc. If the state did not have so much power against men, this malicious tactic would not be as much of a threat.

Several years back there was something of a landmark case in the area of paternity lawsuits.

10 years or so before a man had lost a paternity lawsuit and been instructed by the court to pay child support. But finally a DNA test was administered that proved the loser of the lawsuit was not, in fact, the father. He then petitioned to have the judgment overturned.

The court replied that he had been designated as the responsible party in the lawsuit and while the new evidence was that he was not, the judgment still stood. The reason given was that he had accepted the responsibility and, after all, someone had to pay for the kid.

He was the designated stuckee, by court order. And that was that.

This is disturbing on so many levels. First, it seems that at best the mother did not know who the father was, which says a lot about her. It even raises the possibility that she knew she was pregnant and offered herself to a wealthier man rather than the bum who knocked her up in order to improve her financial situation.

And you wonder what visitation rights accompanied the child support judgment and how the Designated Stuckee reacted in that respect.

But worst of all is what it says about the court itself. The truth does not matter.

A friend of mine used to say, that "men were as weak as water". She was talking about sex. Men will do anything for it. IMO, a woman that doesn't realize this is.....well, pretty naive. Having sex with a woman of course, can lead to pregnancy...and a child....and 18 years of child support. Men do know this, right? Is this news to men? But somehow this knowledge is thrown out the window when a woman is sitting on the bed naked. I personally like to think that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The solution is get a vasectomy and have their sperm in more than one sperm bank. Only.....if they think they may eventually want children. It has been my experience that men are pretty lazy in consulting a lawyer. And that is part of the reason they get screwed over. It is more likely that a man will share porn on their cellphones at work than what it takes to not fall into a trap. I have to admit sometimes it is hard for me to have sympathy for utter stupidity.

Dr. Helen, the solutions in your book regarding tactics like this are completely ineffectual. I found your book informative but the chapter on Going Galt urges men to use legal and media channels to redress the situation. Those are hopelessly ineffectual. The U.S. government is pro woman/gay and anti-man. So expecting redress from the courts is not going to work.

The true culprit is democracy does not work. Democratic governments enshrine mediocrity , make an idol out of crass materialism and incline people to be selfish and rootless.

The government of the United States has to be demolished. It's leaders have been liars and knaves. Universal suffrage allows wimin to vote for zany leftist government that destroys real wealth. W got three things from a government sensitive to women's desires: Divorce, Abortion and Fags.

Her: "Honey, I'm pregnant"Him: "great. I've got this pregnancy test and I want you to take it now. It will be like I was there when you found out. Can I watch you take it? We're gonna be a family. I'm going to frame our baby's DNA test. It's so freakin' awesome."

Which brings us to a greater issue - can you trust what she says about birth control? You can, but it's foolish. Regardless of anything the two of you have agreed to, nor whatever statements she makes, nor what she lies about, if she shows up pregnant, *you're* screwed.

In business terms, you're not allowed to make an actual informed decision, and she will not be held responsible for fraud, or decisions under her hidden, unilateral control.

I must disagree about the tactic needing the State to work. Even before the State had so much power an "I'm pregnant" meant "We're getting married.". It was what decent men did when they knocked a woman up. Unfortunately it is needful to say that the tactic is despicable with or without State enforcement.

you can find the same crap on ebay.com/. they sell real and fake positive pregnancy tests and i guess women that are desperate to get married will buy them. kind of alarming what our culture has resorted to.

This is not to blame the victim here, but men should ALSO get more perceptive about women's real motivations and the types of women who would pull stunts like this (ALSO, in addition to trying to get some of society's attitudes and laws changed).

Something I've heard, for instance, is that women who tend to be histrionic are more likely to make false rape accusations. I don't know if that's true or not.